Reddit reviews The Dreaded Comparison: Human and Animal Slavery

Killing on a massive scale justified by differences between us and them. The comparison is valid. It's not meant to be thrown into people's faces as a one liner, though. It should be done in a well crafted, respectful way.

I recommend reading Eternal Treblinka and The Dreaded Comparison. Those books do this well.

http://www.powerfulbook.com/
http://www.amazon.com/Dreaded-Comparison-Human-Animal-Slavery/dp/0962449334

I wrote my thesis on this. Here are a few of my sources and some new works:

The Dreaded Comparison: Human and Animal Slavery

Eternal Treblinka

The Sexual Politics of Meat

Aphro-ism: Essays on Pop Culture, Feminism, and Black Veganism from Two Sisters

Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation

> I'm just going to ignore the equivolency you are trying to draw between ...

Ever heard of The Dreaded Comparison? (Great book by the way. I highly recommend it.)

I'm not equating racism with speciesism. I'm pointing out the close similarities between the civil rights movement and the animal rights movement to highlight how the stigmatization of an initially normal, yet harmful, ideology is a good thing.

I agree that random insults are never productive, but I never see vegans on this sub directly calling anyone a rapist. We use it as a perfect example to demonstrate how pleasure doesn't justify abuse, but never as a direct insult. I've only seen vegans call people who say they don't care about factory farming psychopaths/sociopaths, but that seems pretty justified given the horrible suffering the animals are forced to endure.

> there is a large, or at least noisy portion of the vegan movement that is violent and extreme.

Extreme is subjective. Giving women property rights was extreme 100 years ago. Anti-speciesism is extreme today. I can only wonder what will be extreme in 100 years from now...

It's not true that vegans are violent. I'm involved in multiple activist groups, and the most violent thing we do is show people slaughterhouse footage lol. Compared to carnists who demand that animals suffer and die for them 24/7, we're incredibly peaceful.

> the use of slavery as a rhetorical tool is not a perfect analogy, obviously.

You should try to get your hands on a copy of this book. You might think differently afterwards.